‘For all children, the ability to play a musical instrument is just as important as the ability to read and write.’ How far do you agree with this suggestion? How important is it for a child to learn to play a musical instrument, in your view?

There is a suggestion that musical

skills

should be as important as reading and writing

skills

for

kids

. In my opinion,

kids

should learn musical

skills

for entertainment, not reading and writing

skills

.

Hence

, reading and writing

skills

are more important than musical

skills

because if a kid doesn't know how to read and write, they can’t play musical

instruments

either.

Firstly

, reading and writing

skills

are paramount for all

kids

but not musical

skills

. Not every child can play musical

instruments

and enjoy them. There are minor

children

or we can call prodigies who can play musical

instruments

very soon.

However

, all the prodigies or normal

children

know reading and writing before they can play musical

instruments

because their parents ensure their

kids

have to know literacy.

Secondly

, there is a lot of important academic information that people need to know how to read and write. The

children

cannot read music sheets if they know how to read. All of these reasons can prove that the

ability

to read and write is more important than the

ability

to play musical

instruments

. Of course, the

ability

to play music is important for talented

kids

.

However

, other

kids

don’t need to have that

ability

. For those

kids

who don't have enough

ability

to play musical

instruments

, they must have the right to choose what they want to learn. To illustrate

this

point, some

kids

have an

ability

in sciences, some are in art. So we can’t force them to learn what they don’t like. We just need to teach them where it is bad and good. In conclusion,

children

can play musical

instruments

but for fun not like reading and writing because they are life

skills

. I quietly agree that the

ability

to play musical

instruments

is important but for the prodigies, not every child.